Wound Ballistics 12

On Friday (17 August 2012) Cranfield Defence and Security hosted an inaugral Wound Ballistics Symposium. My colleague Steve Champion and I have been talking about organsing this for around a year, and a visit from two researchers from New Zealand promoted us to put a date in the diary. All of the administration was wonderfully arranged by the Symposia at Shrivenham Office (thanks again to Michael, Lynn and Ryan). Sixty-seven attendees were treated to eight incredibly interesting invited presentations:

Keynote – From WOUNDMAN to COMPUTERMAN: A Whimsical Exploration. Leslie Payne, Ballistic Injury Archives.

Indirect Ballistic Skeletal Fracture: Can your Femur Fracture Even if a Bullet Does Not Hit the Bone? Captain Dr David Kieser, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association and New Zealand Defence Force.

Wound Ballistic Research: A Morphoscopic Approach. Professor Jules Kieser, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Design Validation of Future Cervical Ballistic Protection for the UK Soldier through the Development of a Novel Injury Model. Major Johno Breeze, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.

A Forensic Investigation of Confined Space Blast. Dr Hasu Patel, Barts and The London and Steven Dryden, Metropolitan Police Service.

The 1968 Firearms Act: Minimum Lethality Requirements. Dr Derek Allsop, Cranfield University.

Examining the Consequences of Blast Injury to the Male External Genitalia. Wing Commander Davendra Sharma, St George’s Hospital.

Parametric Study on the Effect of Calibre on Wound Track, a Numerical Approach. Dr Amal Bouamoul, Defence Research and Development Canada.

A couple of pics (delegates, presenters; Crown Copyright, courtesy of Serco at the Defence Academy):